Isaiah 17:9-14

New International Version

⁹In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.^(A) And all will be desolation.

¹⁰You have forgotten^(B) God your Savior;^(C)
    you have not remembered the Rock,^(D) your fortress.^(E)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,^(F)
¹¹though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,
    and on the morning^(G) when you plant them, you bring them to bud,
yet the harvest^(H) will be as nothing^(I)
    in the day of disease and incurable^(J) pain.^(K)

¹²Woe to the many nations that rage^(L)—
    they rage like the raging sea!^(M)
Woe to the peoples who roar^(N)—
    they roar like the roaring of great waters!^(O)
¹³Although the peoples roar^(P) like the roar of surging waters,
    when he rebukes^(Q) them they flee^(R) far away,
driven before the wind like chaff^(S) on the hills,
    like tumbleweed before a gale.^(T)
¹⁴In the evening, sudden^(U) terror!^(V)
    Before the morning, they are gone!^(W)
This is the portion of those who loot us,
    the lot of those who plunder us.

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Isaiah 17:9-14

International Standard Version

Desolation to the Nations

⁹“At that time,^[a] their fortified cities
    that they abandoned because of the Israelis
will be like desolate places^[b] of the forests and hilltops—^[c]
    there will be desolation.
¹⁰For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
    and have not remembered the Rock
        that is your strength.
Therefore even though you plant delightful plants,
    sowing them with imported vine-seedlings,
¹¹at the time that you plant them,
    carefully making them grow,
the very morning you make your seed to sprout,
    your harvest will be ruined^[d]
        in a time of grief and unbearable pain.”^[e]

¹²“How terrible it will be for many peoples,
    who rage like the roaring sea!
Oh, how the uproar of nations
    is like the sound of rushing, mighty water—
    How they roar!
¹³The nations roar like the rushing of many waters,^[f]
    but the Lord^[g] will rebuke them,
and they will run far away,
    chased like chaff blown down from the mountains
or like thick dust^[h] that rolls along,
    blown along by a wind storm.
¹⁴When the evening arrives, watch out—sudden terror!
    By morning they will be there no longer!
So it will be for those who plunder us
    and what will happen to those who rob us.”